No doubt inspired by this success our new found friends at GameOn are set to release Mahjong this coming Friday (4th December) in Europe. You may not be too familiar with this game, but we hear it’s all the rage in China!

Here a few details about the game for your delectation:

Mahjong is one of the most played games. The game is well-known all over the world as an all-time classic.

30 classic and challenging Mahjong layouts are included.

Popular Mahjong variations like Turtle, Tower and many others will provide you an endless challenge.

Over half an hour (30 minutes) of relaxing music are included and will play in the background.

From the web

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User Comments (26)

That isnt Majong... I have a real Majong game at home and this type of game uses the Majong play stones but it isnt Majong. Damn,i was really happy as i read this news but after i saw the trailer i was very dissapointet.

Well, from what little could be seen this has potential; especially as a budget 500pt. release. There is definitely a market for this title though and I do like a good game of Shanghai/mahjong solitaire.

Now if GameOn does a real mahjong game on the back of this that would be excellent.

@Token Girl: There's a web-based one I believe. Otherwise you can always score a Japanese Wii and have a choice between Nintendo's WiiWare offering Yakuman Wii which is quite playable without knowing Japanese and Mahjong Fight Club on disc from Konami (though I'm not sure what the installed base is for this one). I have the former and have never had problems picking up a match despite the 9-10 hour time difference.

@Adamant: I do sympathise. It would be nice to at least mention "solitaire" in the title. The creator of the first computer game called it "Mah-Jongg" so there is a case to be made for using that name -- though it is confusing.

Back to the game, from screens it looks like they're using the same engine for Solitaire which can only be a good thing!

@ejamer: There is one and it's even from Nintendo. Why it won't get localised is beyond me. It's got full tutorial, local single-player mode, Mii support, downloadable quizzes to test your hand-building knowledge and then online with the option to just play 1 round for a quick game or a full match and online ranking.

With regard to the Homebrew version, most people don't have homebrew so it's pretty much irrelevant. You kids have fun though.